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Jun 07
The Whirlwind That Is Life
I had intended to write in this blog as much as possible, but over the last few weeks I've found very little to mention. At least, until right now.
Around 10:30am I got a call from my father. He said he was having a heart attack and that he needed 911. It only took the paramedics about 3 minutes to get there but it was one the longest 3 minutes I've ever experienced. The only comforting thought that I could hold onto at the time was that compared to the first time my father had a heart attack (this was his second) he looks a lot better physically. He wasn't as pale or as panicked, but I think that it was because he knew what he needed to do in order to help himself before the ambulance got there. He had his nitroglycerin tablets and his medication on stand-by, which was a very good thing, and he was able to get to them quickly. I had to call my brother away from his job to tell him what was going on and they let him go. If they hadn't I was going to go down there and drag him out myself.
I was going to ride in the ambulance with him since my mother was at work and we were having a hard time contacting her. She caries a cell phone but leaves it in her purse and she stores that in a backroom. What good is an emergency cell phone if you're not close enough to it during the emergencies? My father told me it wasn't really neccesary to ride with him and in-between talking to the paramedics he was giving me orders on what to do and who to call. We gathered all of his medication together so that the medics didn't inject or have him swallow anything that would cause him more damamge and off they went to the hospital.
I'd been visiting him daily since the attack on Thursday morning and he was released from the hospital this afternoon around 3pm. Before the trip over to the hospital to pick him up my mother tripped going to a flight of stairs and broke her toe. To the E.R with her. Now she's in a walking cast. My sister is nearly 9 months pregnant and due to have her child. Soon, to the E.R with her as well. I have a feeling that I'll be seeing the inside of hospitals a little too much this summer. I suppose my brother and I are next. Cue dramatic and scary music.
The plan for tommorow is to head to BestBuy for a brand-spankin-new computer so that I can get back to doing what I do and enjoying the time I spend here on the forum. This place ... it's the first thing I do when I connect and the last thing I do before I'm done. What else can I say? I love it here.
 9:14 AM Sep 6
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